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I work at Microsoft as a SWE and use VS Code for c# and js. I've been using VS and Rider a bit as well, but after years of doing python and everything else in VS Code, it's just so familiar and it works just fine for everything my team does so far.


Obviously everyone's preferences are different, so this isn't a direct response but just another anecdote.

I tried VS Code and couldn't get used to it. So now I use Rider for C# and Webstorm for JS. Sometimes I open Visual Studio, though:

> There are some custom plugins someone in my org wrote that help accomplish some team-specific tasks > When I need to work on stored procedures in our SQL databases. Rider doesn't know how to parse the schema from the sql project files, instead it wants me to connect to a live database or it will color everything with little red underlines and give me no autocomplete

I think it's nice that my employer is willing to pay for my Jetbrains licenses despite the fact that it is selling a proprietary competitor and also simultaneously pushing an open source alternative. I appreciate it.




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